The plot to marginalize Bernie Sanders

[Fritz Walter]

Finally! A well-researched story draws the solid line between media -- especially Faux Noos -- and traditional candidates, including Hillary Clinton, and their allies.

Salon article: The plot to marginalize Bernie Sanders: The shared agenda that links Fox News and Hillary Clinton surrogates by Sean Illig

Sub-head: "Both parties are owned by plutocrats. Sanders' challenge threatens them both, and their responses are oddly similar"

Nothing in Bernie Sanders’ platform qualifies as socialist, if that term has any relation at all to its historical meaning. Obsessing over Sanders’ socialist leanings is an exercise in distraction. The choice today, the only choice we really have, is between different species of capitalism. Republicans are absolutists; they fetishize the free market. People like Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal want no regulation, no safety nets, and no constraints on private power. They represent the true believers, the ones who despise government and make a divinity of the market. Sanders rejects this brand of capitalist theology, but that doesn’t make him a socialist.

These emperors and empresses have no clothes.

[Gman]

1. Then there's the plot to demonize Hillary

Between the right wing and progressives. They've both made common cause together. What's the difference? So what's the point? The right wing's newest version of Operation Chaos?

[lewebley3]

6. You are right

[clarice]

2. Wait, I thought that Mr. Sanders was in favor of a 90% tax bracket. Is that true? or BS?. nt

[immoderate]

4. It's BS.

--imm

[clarice]

9. Thank you. nt

[Thinkingabout]

3. Hillary and her surrogates does not have a need to marginalize Bernie Sanders. Sounds like a CT

Bernie's record is his, everyone has the right to agree or disagree.

[BainsBane]

5. Nothing except the fact he CALLS himself a socialist

but I certainly agree that I don't see evidence of socialism. His use of the term to describe himself, however, is enough for the GOP to smear him.


Somehow the fact that the GOP would love to see Sanders as the nominee doesn't register there.

[JaneyVee]

7. Salon has been infiltrated by rightwingers:

http://thedailybanter.com/2015/01/exclusive-salon-com-real-website-operated-far-right-hate-group/

[lewebley3]

8. Bernie has marginalize himself, by not doing anything unit he was 73